Triple

T16115459
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. E390990 entity
Predicate holding P2237 FINISHED
Object The Alien Tort Statute does not generally provide jurisdiction for suits based on conduct occurring entirely in foreign territory.
The Alien Tort Statute does not generally provide jurisdiction for suits based on conduct occurring entirely in foreign territory is a legal principle established by the U.S. Supreme Court in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. that significantly limits the extraterritorial application of the statute in human rights litigation.
E1194050 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: The Alien Tort Statute does not generally provide jurisdiction for suits based on conduct occurring entirely in foreign territory. | Statement: [Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., holding, The Alien Tort Statute does not generally provide jurisdiction for suits based on conduct occurring entirely in foreign territory.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Alien Tort Statute does not generally provide jurisdiction for suits based on conduct occurring entirely in foreign territory.
Context triple: [Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., holding, The Alien Tort Statute does not generally provide jurisdiction for suits based on conduct occurring entirely in foreign territory.]
  • A. United States sovereign immunity law
    United States sovereign immunity law is the body of legal principles and doctrines that limit when and how the federal government, states, and their agencies can be sued without their consent.
  • B. Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
    The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court defines the categories of serious international crimes, the circumstances, and the persons over which the Court is legally empowered to exercise its authority.
  • C. Tucker Act jurisdiction
    Tucker Act jurisdiction refers to the authority of certain federal courts to hear monetary claims against the United States government based on contracts, statutes, regulations, or the Constitution.
  • D. Statute of the International Court of Justice
    The Statute of the International Court of Justice is the foundational treaty that establishes the Court’s structure, jurisdiction, and procedures as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.
  • E. United States territorial law
    United States territorial law is the body of federal and local legal principles and statutes that govern U.S. territories, defining their political status, rights, and relationship to the federal government.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: The Alien Tort Statute does not generally provide jurisdiction for suits based on conduct occurring entirely in foreign territory.
Triple: [Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., holding, The Alien Tort Statute does not generally provide jurisdiction for suits based on conduct occurring entirely in foreign territory.]
Generated description
The Alien Tort Statute does not generally provide jurisdiction for suits based on conduct occurring entirely in foreign territory is a legal principle established by the U.S. Supreme Court in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. that significantly limits the extraterritorial application of the statute in human rights litigation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Alien Tort Statute does not generally provide jurisdiction for suits based on conduct occurring entirely in foreign territory.
Target entity description: The Alien Tort Statute does not generally provide jurisdiction for suits based on conduct occurring entirely in foreign territory is a legal principle established by the U.S. Supreme Court in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. that significantly limits the extraterritorial application of the statute in human rights litigation.
  • A. United States sovereign immunity law
    United States sovereign immunity law is the body of legal principles and doctrines that limit when and how the federal government, states, and their agencies can be sued without their consent.
  • B. Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
    The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court defines the categories of serious international crimes, the circumstances, and the persons over which the Court is legally empowered to exercise its authority.
  • C. Tucker Act jurisdiction
    Tucker Act jurisdiction refers to the authority of certain federal courts to hear monetary claims against the United States government based on contracts, statutes, regulations, or the Constitution.
  • D. Statute of the International Court of Justice
    The Statute of the International Court of Justice is the foundational treaty that establishes the Court’s structure, jurisdiction, and procedures as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.
  • E. United States territorial law
    United States territorial law is the body of federal and local legal principles and statutes that govern U.S. territories, defining their political status, rights, and relationship to the federal government.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d87f1a8dd881909f1de6ef78849874 completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e2016a9dd48190bca3f58778ed865f completed April 17, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffebab779c8190b466c26f4024aa31 completed May 10, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffec4898088190bed531e33418c7e5 completed May 10, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffecce96508190a53f100e3207ebac completed May 10, 2026, 2:26 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5 a.m.